Man vs. Machine: Extracting Character Networks from Human and Machine Translations




Konovalova Aleksandra,Toral Antonio

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SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature

Gyeongju, Republic of Korea

2022

 Proceedings of COLING: International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Proceedings of the 6th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature

75

82

https://aclanthology.org/2022.latechclfl-1.10/

https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/176955473



Most of the work on Character Networks to date is limited to monolingual texts. Conversely, in this paper we apply and analyze Character Networks on both source texts (English novels) and their Finnish translations (both human- and machine-translated). We assume that this analysis could provide some insights on changes in translations that could modify the character networks, as well as the narrative. The results show that the character networks of translations differ from originals in case of long novels, and the differences may also vary depending on the novel and translator’s strategy.


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